I’m probably late to the party on this, but… has anyone else noticed how Reddit shows up for almost every Google search now?

I’ll Google something super specific - like “best AI tools for writing” or “how to grow a lifestyle blog naturally” and half the top results are just Reddit threads. Sometimes they’re helpful, but other times it’s just random people chatting nonsense (or arguing 😂).

I thought Google was supposed to show “trustworthy” results, but Reddit doesn’t always feel that way. Do people really trust it that much?

I’m just curious what’s actually going on here and how it could be used when we’re trying to grow our own sites.

Previously, Reddit used to show the how many people are subscribed to a Subreddit community, whether those members were active or not. So, just because a subreddit looked popular and worth joining, in reality, all of those Redditors may have been simply “lurking” in these communities without adding content or engaging in conversations. 

Now, as per screenshot below, Reddit shows two new metrics instead. The first figure shows how many users have visited a subreddit in the past seven days, based on a rolling 28-day average. The second displays how many contributions have been made in the past seven days, excluding any posts or comments that have been removed.

The change aims to provide a better glimpse at how active a subreddit actually is. Moderators can still view how many people are subscribed to their own subreddit.

If you do own a subreddit and are hoping to get new subscribers, the emphasis now is on making it look busy. You may previously have relied on having a lot of subscribers, to attract more people. But now, let's say you have 5000 subscribers, but you are the only one who posts anything, and even then, only once per week, this is going to be clear to people who visit and they won't be interested, if there is no activity. 

Just as with any other social media platform, you need to step up the pace to gain traction!

So, from your Reddit homepage feed you just select the 'New' posts, top left. Then if you can get the first comment in on a post or reply to the first or second comment and you make it a bit 'riskay' or controversial ... it will get lots of upvotes.

I commented on the North Korean Olympic team recently, pretty innocently, and it blew up. Went crazy and got 600+ upvotes I think.

Another one today ... bit smaller. 127 upvotes so far but it proves the effectiveness of what Partha has been saying. I've taken a new Reddit account to nearly 1000 Karma already.

I have zero experience with Reddit so no idea if that's impressive or not, maybe a bit "WA" lol :-)